rokket opened this issue on Sep 05, 2014 · 79 posts
ockham posted Sat, 06 September 2014 at 6:06 PM
Seems to be a fairly general phenomenon. I noticed it first when I was teaching back in the '80s, and then noticed it strongly with Poser stuff. Every time I felt proud of my carefully planned lecture or lab exercise, the students were lost. When I was hung over and sloppy, pretty much phoning it in, the students learned solidly.
With Poser stuff, the items that I deeply enjoyed making ... the times when I stepped into the little world and lived there for a while ... got very few downloads and very little positive response. The quick "tossoffs" or reworks of earlier stuff got plenty of positive response.
It's frustrating from that viewpoint, but it makes sense if you think of total pleasure as a constant.
Intrinsic pleaure + Extrinsic pleasure = Constant.
More intrinsic ---> less extrinsic and vice versa.